What has David Lammy said about Oxford admissions?

After Oxford's admissions stats were revealed in May 2018, he said: "The progress is glacial.

"The truth is that Oxford is still a bastion of white, middle class, southern privilege."

He claimed white students were "twice as likely to get in" as black students and that Southerners were more successful than Northerners.

His figures appear to relate to the total population in each region rather than the number of applicants.

Mr Lammy went on: "Thirty black pupils applied for computing last year. Not one of them gets in.

"Are we really saying there isn't a black student in Britain who can apply for computing who is worth a place at Oxford? Surely not."

Universities Minister Sam Gyimah, who is black and went to Oxford, said the institution needed to "double down" on its work to engage with potential applicants at an earlier stage.

He said: "It's about raising aspirations, it's about helping prepare students at the GCSE level and then when it gets to application stage, knowing how to actually play the system."

Oxford University says some talented students are put off applying because they think they will not fit in.

It vowed to expand its summer school programme to encourage bright teenagers from poor and ethnic minority backgrounds.

But it will not make lower offers to take account of students' more difficult circumstances.

Samina Khan, the director of undergraduate admissions, told the BBC: "You are looking a very different applicant pools.

"We are not getting the right number of black people with the talent to apply to us and that is why we are pushing very hard on our outreach activity to make sure we make them feel welcome and they realise Oxford is for them."

Oxford students' unions blamed schools for "attainment gaps... which greatly disadvantage black pupils and those from low-income backgrounds, among other underrepresented groups."